which bits did you think were inventions?Watched it tonight Great film and this thread has provided a lot of background as well. An inspiring story. I'm amazed that all the bits I thought were inventions for the film turned out to be true.
A certain amount of artistic make it make sense is expected surely?oddly enough for no real reason except the time and subject matter it made me think of what aids could do back then, how much of a death sentence it was. How nobody in a position to do anything would cos its a disease for gays and druggies so fuck them right? and yet it wasn't 'fuck them' as the film shows. Solidarity still, cross class cross gender cross border.
I'm amazed they could make anything feel good out of that time at all never mind give it a up beat end, but I supposed that is the magic of film. Much better than real life anyway. The miners lost their fight, aids was fucking awful and then we got clause 28.
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I put it down to a comedy life moment. The money wasn't the point afterall. The fact we stood up to the exploiting cunts and won, was.
they conflated things that only happened later - eg the 'dont die of ingorance campaign only started in 1986 well after the strike was over.Good question.
Um... the women singing in the hall. The guy being one of the first people diagnosed with HIV and him surviving. The whole "make the most of your intellect" speech with Sian (and her ending up as an MP). Cliff saying he was gay. Even the miners leading Pride. Probably more that I've forgotten.
I think AIDS might have still been called GRID then, gay related imune dificiency - or just 'gay plague' in the tabloids. It was a horrible time to be queer.
I think I heard the bit were the miners social club goes quiet when they arrived was an invention too, they actually got a warm welcome.
Some people did survive from the very earliest days - either through sheer luck or more probably possessing some genetic mutation, or an innate ability to keep the virus in check. Granted, such people would be few and far between unfortunately.
I think he lives around the corner from me, though I don't know him personally. I do know someone who been living with HIV since the 80s and he is well, though so many of the men I knew then are not alive not.
it was the tom hanks film Philidelphia that woke me up to it- it was already being defeated, being treated as I was growing up and it was never a thing that affected me as it did people of your generation. Just the stone cold ignorance of it, no effort made to research etc. Because fuck the queers and druggies. For a while I honestly thought it was a bioweapon deliberately done to punish the 'bad' people. But these days I am slightly less paranoid. It was a tragedy deliberately not adressed quickly rather than a lab grown horror. Musn't credit The Man with too much power, it disempowers ones ownself to do so.
Two miners' strike activists who helped inspire a Bafta-winning film are to be honoured in their local community.
Mark Ashton was a leading figure in the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) group during the strike in 1984.
Hefina Headon was secretary of the Miners Support Group in the Dulais Valley, south Wales.
Their lives were among those portrayed in the 2014 film Pride and will now be remembered with plaques at Onllwyn Welfare Hall.
Members of the LGSM group will attend the ceremony to unveil them on Saturday that follows the Swansea Pride march.
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Mr Ashton helped form the group which raised money to provide food and support for striking miners and their families. He died in 1987 aged 26.
His friend and former Swansea East MP Sian James said he was a "great character" who "brought people together".
"He was a unifier, not a divider. I have no doubt that if he had lived (longer) he would have achieved great things," she said.
"It took somebody really brave like Mark to actually say we need to do something."
Miners' strike film inspirations honoured
Why? Since LGSMigrants began in 2015, we have called out Pride in London for excluding the most marginalised members of our community, the majority of who come from a migrant background. Each year at Pride in London, we march in an attempt to bring the parade back to its political roots, while also targeting corporations who pinkwash our identities while carrying out inhumane practices such as forced deportations. This year we are hosting a party which will create a space for politically minded queers and members of our community from marginalised backgrounds to party with meaning. The event will also raise much-needed cash for migrant-led queer groups to get them to down to London for Pride in London and Black Pride.
